Cates: During the 1990s, a number of officers and key people from JALT, Korea TESOL and Thai TESOL began to look beyond their own countries and teaching situations, and began flying off to each other's conferences to see what was happening with language teaching in the rest of Asia. This led, soon after, to the signing of sister agreements between JALT, Korea TESOL, and Thai TESOL, which involved the exchange of newsletters and journals, and officers in each organization attending each other's conferences. With growing contact, this led to the idea of having a series of Pan-Asian Conferences (PAC) sponsored in turn by the three countries involved (Thailand, Korea, and Japan). The first one was held in Bangkok in 1997, the second in Seoul in 1999, and the third planned for Kitakyushu, Japan in 2001. While I couldn't attend PAC I in Bangkok, I was involved in promoting the sister organization agreements and the idea of the PAC conferences. In 1993, I was invited by Korea TESOL to come over as a featured speaker to introduce the new area of global education to Korean teachers of English at their national Korea TESOL conference.